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Title: Walk the S&C Post by: patch38 on January 21, 2017, 14:21:34 From Wilts & Glos Standard
http://www.wiltsglosstandard.co.uk/news/15038361.Rare_chance_to_walk_Swindon_and_Cricklade_railway_line (http://www.wiltsglosstandard.co.uk/news/15038361.Rare_chance_to_walk_Swindon_and_Cricklade_railway_line) Quote Residents are being offered a unique opportunity to walk along the tracks of the Swindon and Cricklade railway. The railway team are holding the sponsored walk on Sunday, February 26, to help raise funds to purchase a new marquee. By finally owning a marquee, rather than hiring one at various times during the year, the railway will be able to make their various events more profitable. The fundraiser promises to offer attendees the rare chance to walk along the railway line, which is seven miles long. It will start at Mouldon Hill, Taw Valley Halt, and go to Cricklade, before returning to Hayes Knoll for a tour of the engine shed for those interested. The walk will then continue to Blunsdon for tea, coffee and a cake, before the final stretch back to Mouldon Hill. For walkers that do not wish to walk the full length, the route can be broken into smaller segments. As an incentive, anyone raising more than £400 will get a free driver experience, for which there is an age limit of 18. For under-18s that raise this sum, two family passes to events are on offer. For more information, or sponsorship forms, contact Bill Daly by calling 01793 778110, emailing daly1968@hotmail.com or visiting swindon-cricklade-railway.org Raising £400 and getting a drive sounds like a fair deal! Title: Re: Walk the S&C Post by: JayMac on January 21, 2017, 15:48:54 Anyone else think, from the topic title, that this was going to be about an opportunity to walk along some of the Settle & Carlisle line? :)
A walk across Ribblehead Viaduct would be fantastic! Title: Re: Walk the S&C Post by: Western Pathfinder on January 21, 2017, 16:19:53 It's quite a climb up the bank from underneath but a great view once you are up on top
I should add that at no time was I on the Railway . Title: Re: Walk the S&C Post by: ChrisB on January 21, 2017, 16:58:59 Anyone else think, from the topic title, that this was going to be about an opportunity to walk along some of the Settle & Carlisle line? :) A walk across Ribblehead Viaduct would be fantastic! Errrr....yup! Title: Re: Walk the S&C Post by: patch38 on January 21, 2017, 22:42:20 On a Great Western forum? I mean, really chaps... ;D
Title: Re: Walk the S&C Post by: grahame on February 04, 2017, 22:10:32 Anyone else think, from the topic title, that this was going to be about an opportunity to walk along some of the Settle & Carlisle line? :) On a Great Western forum? I mean, really chaps... ;D Clearly Midland and South West Junction and not GWR, right? Title: Re: Walk the S&C Post by: JayMac on February 05, 2017, 00:27:00 Clearly Midland and South West Junction and not GWR, right? Depends. Are we talking pre- or post- 1923 grouping? ;) :P Title: Re: Walk the S&C Post by: patch38 on February 05, 2017, 13:31:31 Yes, but 'Midland and South West Junction Coffee Shop' just hasn't got that ring to it... ;)
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